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> When bone is buried in the ground, it can absorb U-238 from the environment. How? Is there traceable amount of Uranium-238 in every handful of dirt around th
by Yajirobe 7y ago
> When bone is buried in the ground, it can absorb U-238 from the environment.
How? Is there traceable amount of Uranium-238 in every handful of dirt around the world?
- checkyoursudo 7y agoI don't remember specifics from college, but yes, I think there is uranium pretty much everywhere. Oceans, rocks, dirt, maybe not airborne, but everywhere else.
- eloff 7y agoThere is actually enough in the oceans that people have proposed concentrating it for commercial extraction. Probably not viable, but surprising to think about.
- mxcrossb 7y agoIt seems like it should be the opposite right? There is no uranium being exchanged with the environment after burial, so you can determine the age by how much has decayed.